Machined to a tolerance of plus or minus 0.025 mm from a solid block, this centre body missile launcher, designed for one of the Royal Navy’s Sea Harrier aircraft, is being completed with the use of special tooling developed by a British company. The component, which is extremely complex in design, had to be drilled to close limits, and the tooling had to take into effect the movement of the workpiece on the drilling bed. It was produced on a CNC (computer numerically controlled) machine and took 130 hours to complete.
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Press, 20 April 1982, Page 28
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91Machined to a tolerance of plus or minus 0.025 mm from a solid block, this centre body missile launcher, designed for one of the Royal Navy’s Sea Harrier aircraft, is being completed with the use of special tooling developed by a British company. The component, which is extremely complex in design, had to be drilled to close limits, and the tooling had to take into effect the movement of the workpiece on the drilling bed. It was produced on a CNC (computer numerically controlled) machine and took 130 hours to complete. Press, 20 April 1982, Page 28
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